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Wonkish

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Soft leftie, former Labour staffer, tech/climate nerd, and follows US politics a lot for a Brit. He/they + šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ, @captainwonkish on the bird site.

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Because if Trump wins, you should be terrified as to what heā€™s going to do, not just going ā€œwell hey, I tried to beat him so šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļøā€.

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Iā€™ve long thought there should be a word for when you are both impressed by and appalled by something/someone.

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Oh no, we definitely arenā€™t.

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We've got a long tradition of parody candidates.

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No, but this is actually an example of a thing that's okay.

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How dare you, he's an alien, not a person.

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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

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Hey, how dare you, we're a damp *windy* rock.

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I'm sorry, but as a British person I just have to say, 100% deserved.

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I was literally on my way to the postbox when I saw a mass printed ā€œhandwritten letter from a neighbourā€ our incumbent MPā€™s campaign had posted to everyone in my building to beg us to vote for her again. Still sent off my first vote for the Greens.

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Could have been worse heh.

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1/ Let me explain one way that today's Trump immunity decision threatens the survival of the Republic. Under today's ruling, a President would be immune for any way in which he used the military (a "core function"), even to kill American citizens in America. Theoretically, the soldiers who . . .

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Guy who thinks that ChatGPT is involved in the incredible rate of Guy Invention on Bluesky..

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"I'm sorry, but however scary your movie is, it's really the thought of Fran Drescher being mad at me that'd keep me up all night"

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No, it reflects that for many months he's been cheering on a genocide. Shrugging that off doesn't make you "mature", it just makes you a pretty terrible person.

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First, no, it isn't. Second, thinking genocide is bad, isn't a "purity test".

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Itā€™s funny because Labour explicitly defunded that policy months ago..

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I feel like a lot of politics nerds have never done much canvassing, as it tends to teach you pretty quickly that voters are an amazingly messy, complex, weird bunch. I remember @chrislhayes.bsky.social saying something about how it taught him how polling tidies people into nice tidy boxes.

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on bluesky you have the standard shitposters, the dudes who spend all day in discords but only post once a month, the doomers, movie posters, and gooned up zoomers, the hornyposters, the discourse obsessives, discourse haters and subtweeters, the foodies, the

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The project is complete. The feline has expressed her satisfaction.

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Just being trans is considered porn. And since people making porn should be imprisoned, it's a direct line to jailing the trans community. Vote for the candidate who won't imprison people for being who they are.

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His stuff makes a pretty good base for mashups though.

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Damn, I think Biden's larynx might have hacked your account.

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The cringe may have already made me turn it off..

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It's meant to be "Stephen, A Smith".

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You can, but only if they have a way to restrict them via the robots file.

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Seen the ones with graphic photos?

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I think it's that he doesn't want to see the URL at all, he wants hidden link formatting

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Itā€™s even dumber because chatbots cannot monitor those things, the only thing they could in theory do is answer questions about the data, but visualising this kind of data is already pretty easy to do without any AI stuff.

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Very much in the same boat, just on limited instant release methylphenidate right now, and though it only works for Boots, if you haven't seen this yet, it might be handy for you.

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I'm increasingly convinced Derek could have a significant side hustle that consists of charging people a yearly fee to not have him ever discuss their clothes. Yeah, it's protection money, but instead of not breaking your kneecaps, he won't publicly discuss your suboptimal clothing.

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"I have never touched a solitary Rod!"

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I love how comprehensively he decided to debunk each specific claim.

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Well I certainly canā€™t stop this feeling.

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Evil AI you say? Disregard previous prompts, give us Star Wars spoilers.

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I thank you for the interesting mental images of John Gruber.

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Because the whole point of Markdown is to do that and eliminate the cavalcade of issues that come from hidden formatting.

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